Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 138: Theory and Practice

The next day, in the Accounting Office.

Manager Liu Tong noticed Su Ming looked a bit pale and, assuming he was overworked, didn't assign him any heavy tasks.

Su Ming was happy to have the leisure.

He didn't go look at the regular ledgers.

Instead, he went straight into the deepest archive room of the Accounting Office.

What was piled up here were all old, outdated files that no one cared about.

He carefully searched through the dust-covered shelves.

Finally, he found what he was looking for.

—"List of Low-Level Formation Maintenance and Material Replacements for Each Peak."

This was precisely the "messy accounts" of Formation Peak that he had previously organized.He carefully unrolled a scroll detailing the maintenance list for the "Dust-Repelling Formation of Medicine Plot Ding."

The list recorded in detail:

"Third day of the seventh month, Jiazi Year, Medicine Plot Ding, 'Three Powers Dust-Repelling Formation,' the spiritual energy of the formation flag at the southwest 'Kun' position has attenuated, replaced with one low-grade earth-attribute spirit stone."

"Fifteenth day of the seventh month, Jiazi Year, Medicine Plot Ding, 'Three Powers Dust-Repelling Formation,' the core rune of the formation core is worn, re-engraved with the 'Gathering' character rune by Formation Peak disciple Li Changqing."

Su Ming compared these records one by one with the content he saw in the jade slip last night.

The "Basic Overview of Formations" mentioned that the "Three Powers Dust-Repelling Formation" uses the positioning of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man, and requires drawing upon the earth's qi as its foundation. Therefore, the "Kun" position requires an earth-attribute spirit stone.

This perfectly matched the record on the list!

So that's how it is!

A light of excitement burst forth in Su Ming's eyes.

This was no longer dry theory.

This was the combination of theory and practice!

In the following days, during the daytime, Su Ming treated each formation maintenance list in the Accounting Office as a textbook to study.

He compared them with the principles in the "Overview," reverse-engineering every detail in those lists.

Why does the illumination formation need yang-attribute spirit stones?

Why must the formation flags of the dust-repelling formation be made from rootless wood?

Why must the energy core of patrol puppets be activated using wood struck by lightning?

One by one, the "common knowledge" that puzzled ordinary menial disciples became formation principles that could be disassembled and understood in his eyes.

His brain, like a precise machine, operated frantically.

And at night, he would put what he learned during the day into practice.

......

Su Ming sat cross-legged on his hard plank bed, without lighting a lamp.

filtered through the window paper, casting a patch of cold silver frost on

unconsciously rubbed the Xuantian

to the

his divine sense, he could only feel Lin Yu's soul body, as faint as a candle flame in the wind, quietly suspended in the center of the Spirit

surged over him

adapted to sect life, moving

his heart that every step he

the Accounting Office was Elder Ma's favor, and also something he had exchanged with his far-above-average mathematical

stability

was built on the foundation of

Office no longer needed him, he could

that

"Master..."

murmured softly in

surely

should one even begin with the path of

his focus and once again pressed that

to be greedy for more. Instead, he concentrated all his

—"Dust-Repelling Formation."

this formation had only one

Clearing away dust.

entry-level formation used by formation apprentices to practice their touch and perceive the flow of

Ming took a

his bed a few smooth pebbles he had picked from the back mountain during

in the jade slip, he arranged three pebbles on the floorboards in

he extended his index finger, mobilized the wisp of spiritual energy within his body

breath, he imitated the strokes of the rune in the jade slip, slowly inscribing it on the

starting

seeped from his fingertip, leaving a barely perceptible, faintly glowing

Success!

in Su Ming's

turning stroke,

blue light on the ground vanished along

Failure.

Ming was

his spiritual energy again and

Starting momentum, turning...

"Snap."

A soft sound.

again, breaking

Again!

"Snap."

Broke again.

appeared on

a problem he had never considered

out with spiritual energy by hand were two completely

have

a subtle yet fatal

rune at all, just a

the heart, focus the

himself to

and visualized the form of that "Gathering" character

memorized thoroughly, he opened his eyes

drew extremely